83 m. ago UK’s oldest Indian restaurant faces closure in dispute with crown estate

Owner of Michelin-starred Veeraswamy, London, heads to high court to object to ‘heartless’ plans to upgrade buildingIt has been a fixture of British-Indian dining since it first opened its doors in April 1926 on the day of Elizabeth II’s birth, serving guests over the decades ranging from Marlon Brando to the late Queen herself.Yet despite surviving the Blitz and London’s relentlessly competitive restaurant sector, a dispute with the current monarch’s property developer threatens the survival of London’s oldest Indian restaurant just short of its 100th anniversary. Continue reading...

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84 m. ago Climate crisis has tripled length of deadly ocean heatwaves, study finds

Hotter seas supercharge storms and destroy critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefsThe climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.Half of the marine heatwaves since 2000 would not have happened without global heating, which is caused by burning fossil fuels. The heatwaves have not only become more frequent but also more intense: 1C warmer on average, but much hotter in some places, the scientists said. Continue reading...

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84 m. ago Rory McIlroy steps into league of his own with magical Masters triumph | Ewan Murray

Nick Faldo has more majors and Seve Ballesteros was a majestic shotmaker but the career grand slam is pricelessIn Northern Ireland, debate is already raging as to whether Rory McIlroy has presented himself as the country’s greatest ever sportsperson.The answer is surely obvious. Step aside, George Best. McIlroy’s Masters triumph may even force Sports Personality of the Year to afford due recognition to golf. It is only April but it feels highly unlikely the scene immediately after McIlroy claimed the Masters on Sunday will be matched. His pounding of the turf; his tears absorbed more than a decade of such deep frustration. The moment reverberated beyond sport; Rory had done it. Grown men, lots of them, shed tears on his behalf as he broke his Augusta hoodoo. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Free US family planning clinics face ruin after White House freezes funds

Title X, with services like STI tests and cancer screenings, in limbo after Trump administration pauses $66m in fundsMore than 10 days after the Trump administration froze roughly $66m of federal funds that had been earmarked for no- and low-cost family planning services, the providers that had been scheduled to receive that money are staring down the possibility of financial collapse.Title X, the country’s largest federal family planning program, provides clinics across the country with more than $200m each year for services such as contraception, STI tests and cancer screenings. In 2023, more than 2 million people received healthcare through Title X, which helps people regardless of income, age or citizenship status. For many, Title X is their only source of healthcare. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Aging Greater Manchester transport hub to get huge £80m transformation as first details revealed

The 45-year-old Bury interchange has 'yet to be redeveloped to modern standards'

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2 h. ago Leaked UN experts report raises fresh concerns over UAE’s role in Sudan war

As crucial London peace talks set to begin, report seen by the Guardian raises questions over ‘multiple’ flights into bases in ChadPressure is mounting on the United Arab Emirates over its presence at a crucial conference in London aimed at stopping the war in Sudan after a leaked confidential UN report raised fresh questions over the UAE’s role in the devastating conflict.The UAE has been accused of secretly supplying weapons to Sudanese paramilitaries via neighbouring Chad, a charge it has steadfastly denied. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Ben Jennings on Zelenskyy’s invite to Donald Trump – cartoon

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2 h. ago ‘We always had great hopes for him’: Holywood celebrates Rory McIlroy’s grand slam

From biscuits to paintings, images of the champion golfer are everywhere in his County Down birthplaceThe torture was over, the sun shone and images of the familiar toothy grin were sprouting across Holywood, the birthplace of the embodiment of agony and ecstasy known as Rory McIlroy.It was Monday afternoon and the Northern Ireland town could finally flaunt images of its most famous son without risk of jinxing him, because he had won the Masters and history was in the bag. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Man admits taking part in Ely riots after teenagers died in crash

Ryan Knight, 20, has appeared at Cardiff Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to rioting

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2 h. ago Vatican puts ‘God’s architect’ Antoni Gaudí on path to sainthood

Pope Francis recognises the ‘heroic virtues’ of the creator of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família basilica in first step of processHe’s long been nicknamed “God’s architect” by those who point to his piety and the religious imagery woven through his soaring spires, colourful ceramics and undulating lines.Now it seems the Vatican may be ready to make it official. It said on Monday that Antoni Gaudí, the Catalan architect behind Barcelona’s Sagrada Família basilica, had been put on the path to sainthood. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Hamas says it's sending a delegation to Qatar to continue Gaza ceasefire talks

A Hamas official says that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to continue the indirect ceasefire talks with Israel

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3 h. ago Trump aides and El Salvador president say wrongly deported man won’t return to US: ‘No version of this ends with him living here’ – live

Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia while Stephen Miller says he would be deported again if he did come back to the USDonald Trump will meet this morning with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, at 11am ET at the White House.Referring to the cost of imprisoning the detainees in El Salvador, Trump told reporters on Sunday about Bukele:I think he’s doing a fantastic job, and he’s taking care of a lot of problems that we have that we really wouldn’t be able to take care of from a cost standpoint.He’s been amazing. We have some very bad people in that prison. People that should have never have been allowed into our country. People that murdered, drug dealers, some of the worst people on earth are in that prison. And he’s able to do that. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Police confirm major new lead in search for missing teenagers

Isabelle and Daniel left their homes a week ago, and neither of them have been heard from since

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3 h. ago Republican supporters of Ukraine put pressure on Trump after missile strikes

Lawmakers use Kremlin’s deadly attacks as latest evidence to convince president he must increase pressure on PutinRepublican supporters of Ukraine are using the Kremlin’s deadly missile strikes as their latest evidence to convince Donald Trump that he must increase pressure on Vladimir Putin if he wants to reach a ceasefire deal.Pro-Ukraine lawmakers and aides in the Republican party have carefully navigated Trump’s apparent affinity for Putin and avoided direct intervention in their efforts to shift his support toward Kyiv. But following the Russian strikes during Palm Sunday celebrations in the city of Sumy, advisers and allies have been highly vocal in condemning the attack using language meant to resonate with the US president’s conservative, religious base. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Sicilian gravedigger accused of removing corpses to resell burial sites

Arrested man was allegedly aided by a forensic pathologist said to have falsely certified the decomposition of bodiesPolice in Sicily have arrested a former gravedigger and are investigating 18 others accused of illegally removing bodies from tombs to make way for new corpses.The former gravedigger’s assistant was also arrested on Monday in the investigation dating from 2023 for alleged corruption and bribery in Trapani, on the west coast of the Italian island. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Phoenix Suns fire Mike Budenholzer after single, disastrous season

Suns missed postseason after late-season slumpBudenholzer won NBA title with Bucks in 2020-21Mike Budenholzer is the latest NBA coach to be fired as the Phoenix Suns announced they are parting ways with him after just one season in charge.The team announced Budenholzer’s departure in a short, terse statement on Monday. “Competing at the highest level remains our goal, and we failed to meet expectations this season,” the statement said. “Our fans deserve better. Change is needed.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Great Britain’s gamble pays off but Billie Jean King Cup desperately needs change

The tournament needs reform and a clear-cut identity - but its hands are tied by a bloated calendar and high-profile absences

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4 h. ago ‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish

His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictionsThe early 1960s was, for my generation in Argentina, an age of discovery when, in our mid-teens, we learned about sex, metaphysics, the Beatles, Ezra Pound, Che Guevara, Fellini’s films, and the new literature of Latin America. In the bookstore around the corner from my school, there began to appear novels with black-and-white photographs on the dust jackets whose Spanish-language authors, while acknowledging Borges as the fons et origo of all literary endeavours, attempted to find in the 19th-century European realists new ways to depict the troubled reality of Spain and South America.One of those novels was La Ciudad y los Perros (The City and the Dogs, oddly translated into English as The Time of the Hero) by a young, unknown Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, who, in 1962, had won the recently c...

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4 h. ago Jack Black forced to wade in as A Minecraft Movie theater mayhem continues

Some movie theaters are now banning unaccompanied children

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